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Marmalade Puddings

A boiled suet pudding made with bread crumbs, sugar, orange marmalade and eggs, with raisins at the bottom of the mold.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and raisin are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,684 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Marmalade Puddings

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mix the suet, bread crumbs, sugar, and orange marmalade together in a bowl.

  2. Beat in the eggs until well combined.

  3. Grease a mold and lay a few open raisins at the bottom.

  4. Pour the mixture into the mold.

Cook and serve

  1. Boil for 4 hours.

  2. Serve with sauce of your choice.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Orange + raisintop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,684 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Sugar + raisintop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Bread + raisintop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,111 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Bread + orangetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,084 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Suet
Adds fat that keeps the pudding moist and rich as it steams.
Grated bread crumbs
Provides the body that holds the pudding together.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and help it set firm during cooking.
Orange marmalade
Adds sweetness and bright citrus flavour throughout the pudding.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps give the pudding its tender texture.

The step that matters

Keep the pudding at a steady boil for the full 4 hours. Boiling keeps the mold evenly heated so the eggs set and the suet melts into the crumbs. If the water drops to a low simmer or boils dry, the pudding can cook unevenly or turn heavy.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, sugar, egg, raisin):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Datesfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, sugar, egg, raisin. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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